Tireless commitment to women

Women's rights activist and founder of the Cologne-based aid organization medica mondiale, Monika Hauser, receives the "Alternative Nobel Prize" this year. The gynecologist receives the award for her "tireless commitment to women" who have suffered the most horrific sexual violence in crisis regions, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation of German-Swedish Jakob Uexkull announced Wednesday. Hauser fought for social recognition of the suffering of these women and for their compensation.

Medica mondiale was founded 15 years ago to help women in Bosnia who had been victims of sexual violence during the war. Since then, the organization has also been active in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Liberia and other countries. The Alternative Nobel Prize is given to those who have fought for social justice, peace and independent journalism. This year's other award winners come from India, Somalia and the USA: journalist Amy Goodman is being honored for the news program "Democracy Now", which she founded and hosts!" honored. The daily format is exemplary "for the development of an innovative model of truly independent political journalism that brings to millions of people those alternative voices so often marginalized by mainstream media," it says in justification. The women's rights activist Asha Hagi, is considered a champion against the widespread circumcision of women in her homeland Somalia and is involved in many ways at the political level in the northeast African crisis state. She received the award "because, despite great risk to herself, she organizes and leads the participation of women in the peace process of her war-torn country," the jury said. Krishnammal and her husband Sankaralingam Jagannathan receive the "Alternative Nobel Prize" for the work of the organization they founded, "Land for the Tillers' Freedom" (LAFTI). The jury particularly praised the couple's lifelong commitment "to realizing the Gandhian vision of social justice and sustainable human development".The non-profit Right Livelihood Award Foundation has so far honored 128 individuals from 56 countries. The prize money amounts to a total of two million Swedish kronor (about 210 million Swedish kronor).000 euros). The award ceremony will take place on 8. December in Stockholm.

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